,transcriber's ,note3 ,original spelling
 has been preserved4 ,changes of font   
for emphasis have been marked thus4     
,,an                                    
,,address                               
,given in to the                        
,late ,king ,james1                     
,,by ,,the                              
,,titular ,,archbishop                  
,,of                                    
,,dublin3                               
,,from               ,the ,general      
,meeting of the ,romish ,bishops and    
,clergy of ,ireland1 held in ,may last1 
by that ,king's                         
,order4           ,wherein several      
,things relating to the ,popish ,designs
                upon these ,three       
,kingdoms1 are discovered4              
,the ,original whereof was found in the 
late ,king            ,james's ,closet1 
in the ,castle of ,dublin1 at his       
leaving that ,city3 ,and the ,copy      
whereof was                found in the 
,titular ,archbishop's ,lodgings4       

,now ,publish'd with ,reflections on    
each ,paragraph4                        
,,london3            ,printed for ,ric4 
,baldwin1 in the ,old ,baily1 #afij4    
,,the      ,,memorial      ,,given ,,in 
,to the ,late ,king ,,james1      ,,by  
,,the      ,titular ,archbishop of      
,dublin1 c4   ,that the late ,king      
,james was induc'd by the ,emissaries of
 ,rome1 to trample upon the ,laws and   
,liberties of the ,subjects of these    
,three ,kingdoms1 there is no body who  
enjoys the use of their ,reason1 can    
deny4 ,but tho we felt every day new    
,invasions made upon our ,religion by   
the same ,party of men under the ,covert
 of the ,royal ,power and ,prerogative  
7as they call'd it72 yet there are to   
this very day1 a certain incredulous    
sort of men1 who have the folly to tell 
us1 ,that ,king ,james had never the    
least ,design to alter the ,religion of 
these ,kingdoms1 or to introduce        
,popery4  ,among a ,thousand ,instances 
to prove that ,king ,james's great      

,design was the utter extirpation of the
 ,protestant ,religion1 and the         
,restitution 7as the ,papists call it7  
of the ,catholick one1 ,there has of    
late one come to light1 which sets the  
,affair in a ,meridian light1 beyond all
 possibility of doubting2 which         
,instance1 and the occasion of its      
coming to be known1 is as follows4      
99       99       99       99       99  
,the ,late ,king upon his arrival in    
,ireland from ,france1 did make as      
considerable ,steps to overturn the     
,protestant ,religion and ,interest in  
that ,kingdom1 as the short time he was 
there1 and the ,decorum he was to carry 
towards the few ,protestants who adher'd
 to him1 could possibly admit of4 ,a    
great many ,laws made for the safety of 
the ,english ,protestants1 and for      
keeping out the ,irish from the         
possessions they had by so many         
,rebellions justly forfaulted1 were     
rescinded3 ,and1 which was next to      
giving the final ,blow to the           

,protestant ,interest in that ,kingdom1 
,king ,james1 in his ,irish pretended   
,parliament1 had formally removed the   
,fundamental ,charter1 by which the     
,protestants possest their ,estates2 ,i 
mean1 the ,act of ,parliament of        
,ireland1 called1 ,the ,act of          
,settlement3 ,so it seem'd1 there wanted
 scarce any more to be done1 to restore 
,popery and ,papists for good and all in
 ,ireland4  ,but all this was not able  
to satisfie the fiery ,zealots of the   
,church of ,rome1 whom nothing could    
please1 but a thorough work1 as they    
named it4 ,the ,irish ,popish ,bishops  
meet together in the ,titular           
,archbishop of ,dublin's ,lodgings2 and 
with them1 ,the ,provincials of all the 
,religious ,orders3 ,and having         
unanimously agreed to the following     
,address or ,memorial to be presented to
 the late ,king1 then in ,dublin1 they  
present it to him in a full ,body4 ,that
 ,king ,james received this ,address    
very kindly1 was visible in his manner  

of treating the ,persons that presented 
it4 ,he told them1 ,they had never any  
reason to doubt of his ,zeal for the    
,catholick ,religion2 and of his        
willingness to sacrifice all that was   
dear to him upon that account4 ,and that
 he would within a few days acquaint my 
,lord ,archbishop of ,dublin1 with his  
,resolutions and ,answer to their       
,address4  ,what ,answer ,king ,james   
returned1 we have not yet been able to  
learn4 ,but the ,memorial it self was   
found in that ,king's ,closet1 after his
 leaving ,dublin2 and another ,copy of  
the same1 in the ,archbishop's          
,lodgings4  ,the ,memorial it self      
deserves to be here inserted word by    
word1 as it is in the ,original found in
 ,king ,james's ,closet3 ,and it may not
 be impertinent to make some short      
,reflections on each ,paragraph1 as they
 lye in order4   ,the ,memorial runs    
thus4      ,,sir1      ,as we are very  
sensible of ,your ,majesties ,great     
,zeal to     ,establish the ,roman      

,catholick ,religion in this ,your      
,kingdom of     ,ireland1 and own our   
selves extremely thankful and beholding 
to ,your ,majesty for ,your ,gracious   
,declaration to us upon     that        
,subject2 ,so pursuant to ,your         
,majesties ,directions and              
,encouragement1 we herein most humbly   
offer the means that to us     seem most
 efficacious for the due ,accomplishing 
thereof4   ,,reflections4  ,here is a   
fair acknowledgment of a ,design to     
establish the ,roman-,catholick         
,religion in ,ireland1 which they       
expresly say1 ,king ,james had declared 
to them1 and had previous thereto given 
them ,directions and ,incouragement     
about it4 ,one would think1 ,the        
,titular ,archbishop of ,dublin1 and the
 rest of the ,gang1 needed few          
,directions to go about so meritorious a
 ,work as the ,establishment of the     
,catholick ,religion3 ,but it seems     
,king ,james his ,zeal has outgone even 
theirs in this point4 ,he has not only  

given them ,directions about it1 but    
incourag'd them in it4 ,and we know the 
word ,incouragement1 is a very entensive
 one2 as including not only promises to 
assist1 but means and power to bring    
about4 ,and we have no reason to doubt1 
but ,king ,james1 though he thought not 
himself oblig'd to keep his word so     
often given to ,english ,hereticks2 yet 
,he would not fail to merit ,heaven1 by 
keeping firm with those ,people ,he     
imagin'd had power to lock ,heaven      
against him in case of a failure4 ,and  
here by the by1 ,i think it but just1   
,his ,confessor should absolve him from 
the obligation of his ,promise to the   
,titular ,archbishop of ,dublin1 and the
 rest of them1 since the entire ,ruine  
of his ,affairs in ,ireland1 has put him
 out of capacity to keep his word to    
them4   ,,memorial4  ,imprimis1 ,the    
usual and right ,method for to compass  
any ,end or ,design1 is first of all to 
remove the ,chief ,obstacles that offer 
thereunto2 ,wherefore1 inasmuch as the  

,penal ,laws1 particularly the ,statute 
of ,uniformity1 and other like1 were    
originally devised and enacted to       
abolish the ,roman-,catholick ,religion1
 and will continue to be the main       
hindrance of its advancement2 ,we humbly
 conceive that to re-establish the same 
,roman-,catholick ,religion in this     
,kingdom1 as ,your ,majesty graciously  
intends1 it is in all ,conscience and   
,justice an ,act of indispensible       
necessity to repeat those aforesaid     
,penal ,laws so thoroughly repugnant to 
the ,honour and true ,worship of ,god1  
and to the ,salvation of ,souls4        
,,reflections4  ,what a ,barrier the    
,penal ,laws are against ,popery here1  
the ,papists themselves do witness2 ,and
 what an ,eye-sore they are to them1    
they fairly enough insinuate by their   
earnestness with ,king ,james1 in this  
,paragraph1 to have them ,repeal'd4     
,here it is we have reason to admire and
 praise the wise and happy ,conduct of  
the ,church of ,england in the late     

,reign1 who would not be impos'd upon to
 take off these ,laws1 which the        
,papists as well as they1 knew to be a  
firm barrier against ,popery1 and a sure
 fence for securing the ,protestant     
,religion2 ,whatever other glosses were 
put upon them by some of that time4     
,this does sufficiently free that       
,church from the imputation of          
wilfulness and moroseness thrown upon   
them by their ,enemies upon the account 
of their ,refusal in this matter3 since 
the ,papists themselves acknowledge in  
the above-mentioned ,paragraph1 ,that   
these ,laws were originally enacted to  
abolish the ,roman-,catholick ,religion1
 and to be the main hinderance of its   
advancement4 ,and indeed they must have 
been very blind1 that did not see       
through the ,designs of the late ,reign1
 in their ,intriegues of repealing these
 ,laws3 ,and it were a great ,reflection
 upon the ,wisdom of the ,dissenters1 to
 think they had any other thoughts of   
the ,court-,designs at that time1 or    

that they could be brought to imagine1  
there was any real kindness meant       
towards them1 either in the ,toleration 
granted them1 or in the ,insinuations   
made them to take off the ,penal ,laws4 
,for there was no ,party of men more    
odious to the ,papists1 than the        
,dissenters1 notwithstanding of all the 
,caresses made them1 merely to juggle   
them into their own ,ruine1 and the     
,ruine of the ,church of ,england4      
,,memorial4  ,i,idly1 whereas ,almighty 
,god of his ,divine ,providence has     
placed ,bishops in his ,church1 bought  
and redeemed by the ,price of his most  
,precious ,blood1 for to rule and govern
 the same1 and for to enlighten the     
,people into the true and only way of   
,salvation1 as is apparent in ,holy     
,writ2 ,it followeth by an unavoidable  
consequence1 that it is not only        
conducive1 but also absolutely requisite
 for the establishment of this          
,roman-,catholick ,church in its due    
lustre and decorum in this ,kingdom2    

,that the ,prelates and other ,clergy   
thereof1 be restored to their ,livings1 
,churches1 and full exercise of their   
,ecclesiastical ,jurisdiction1 without  
which it is not to be expected that they
 can prevail to repress the ,vices most 
swaying in this ,age1 and make the      
,christians improve themselves with more
 serious application in the observance  
of ,god's ,law1 and in the wholsome     
practice of ,piety and ,virtue3 ,for we 
find by ,experience1 that the ,people   
now-a-days1 generally speaking1 will not
 much heed or regard the ,exhortations  
or ,threatnings of their ,ghostly       
,directors1 when they see them reduced  
to so low an ebb of ,indigence1 as to   
depend of themselves for their spiritual
 ,power and ,authority4   ,,reflections4
  ,in the last ,reign we were           
industriously told over and over again1 
by the ,late ,king's ,emissaries1 ,that 
there was never any thing of a ,design  
to invade the ,livings or ,revenues of  
the ,church1 or of applying of them to  

any body else1 but those of the ,church 
of ,england4 ,here the ,mask is taken   
off1 and the true ,design of            
appropriating the ,revenues of the      
,church1 to the use of the              
,roman-,catholicks alone1 is downright  
confest4 ,this was really design'd long 
before3 ,and we had ,bishops consecrated
 by the ,pope1 for almost all the       
,bishopricks of ,england and ,ireland3  
,but the ,affair was not ripe enough to 
install them in their ,livings4 ,these  
,bishops by the ,canon-,law1 and by the 
acknowledgment of all the ,lawyers of   
,rome1 ,had an undoubted legal ,right to
 the ,revenues of their ,titular        
,bishopricks1 and that immediately upon 
their being nominated by the ,pope3     
,likeas the ,protestant ,bishops were   
but ,usurpers and illegal ,possessors of
 those ,revenues1 if we believe ,romish 
,casuists4 ,now they put ,king ,james in
 mind of his gracious ,declaration to   
them upon that ,subject2 ,and they must 
have their ,foot in1 and the new        

,possessors 7as they take the           
,protestants to be7 must be set a       
packing for good and all4 ,at the end of
 this ,paragraph1 our ,irish ,bishops   
and ,provincials1 do formally contradict
 their so much cry'd-up ,vow of         
,poverty2 ,and tell us plainly1 ,that   
the ,people will not have regard to the 
,advices of their ,ghostly ,directors1  
when they see them reduced to so low an 
ebb of indigence1 as to depend of       
themselves for their spiritual ,power   
and ,authority4 ,here they plainly      
insinuate1 that ,poverty is obstructive 
of the ,peoples profiting by their      
directions2 ,and thence it is1 ,they    
must have the ,livings of the ,clergy   
restor'd to them1 to give a greater     
lustre to their spiritual ,power and    
,authority4 ,at this rate1 the ,clergy  
of the first three ,centuries1 and the  
,mendicant ,orders of their own ,church 
of ,rome1 must have very little success 
in their ,ministerial ,functions1 since 
they of old did absolutely depend1 and  

these new ,orders do yet1 upon the sole 
,charity of the ,people4   ,,memorial4  
,i,i,idly1 ,though it may1 perhaps seem 
to some ,politicks1 that this ,restoring
 the ,roman-,catholick ,religion and    
,clergy here to their ,livings1         
,churches1 ,jurisdiction and            
,privileges1 may be inconsistent at     
present with the ,prospect of ,your     
,majesty's ,affairs in ,england1 and may
 alienate the ,affections of the        
,protestants there1 from giving a       
helping hand1 as may be expected1       
towards ,your ,majesty's ,restauration2 
yet1 with submission1 we conceive that  
this ,objection carries more seeming    
than solid ,reason2 for when did it ever
 prove successful to ,your ,majesty1 or 
to any of ,your ,royal ,predecessors1 so
 far to humour the ,protestants of      
,england in ,concerns of this nature    
relating to the ,glory of ,god1 and good
 of ,souls8 ,what return did they make  
in these latter times to ,your          
,majesty's manifold ,condescentions and 

,indulgences to them8 ,did not they1    
even their ,chief ,clergy1 bring in     
,foreign ,power to invade ,your ,throne1
 without regarding the ,loyalty and     
,allegiance they swore unto ,you8       
,moreover1 if those ,protestants1 ,laity
 and ,clergy of ,england1 or any of     
them1 be now turn'd really ,loyal1 and  
well-affected to ,your ,majesty2 surely 
they will not in any reason be          
displeased1 or grudge1 that in this     
,your ,catholick ,kingdom1 always       
,loyal1 ,your ,majesty should establish1
 as aforesaid1 the ,roman ,religion1 as 
also the ,clergy thereof1 who always    
preach and teach ,loyalty and ,obedience
 to their ,king1 to be an essential     
,maxim of the ,religion and ,law of     
,god4 ,neither will the said            
,protestants upon that consideration of 
,your ,majesty's ,gracious ,restoring   
the ,roman-,catholick ,religion and     
,clergy as desired1 flinch off1 or      
desist from co-operating to ,your       
,majesty's ,restauration1 no more than  

the ,irish ,roman-,catholicks have done1
 when deprived of their ,estates1 and   
brought under severe ,laws against their
 ,religion1 yet always kept touch to    
their ,loyalty and ,allegiance in       
defending ,your ,majesties ,cause4 ,on  
the other side1 if the said ,protestants
 be not sincerely ,loyal1 but only ,act 
for their own ,temporal ,interest under 
the pretext of ,religion1 in their usual
 manner1 how can ,your ,majesty much    
rely upon their assistance1 or after    
,your ,restoration1 7which ,god send    
soon and happy7 expect that they will   
give ,you any way1 but rather all       
imaginable hindrance to establish1 as   
you purpose1 the ,roman-,catholick      
,religion and ,clergy1 in this ,your    
,kingdom of ,ireland1 in that full      
manner aforesaid8   ,,reflections4      
,here1 in the beginning of this         
,paragraph1 we have fairly insinuated1  
the true ,reasons why ,king ,james did  
not restore1 when upon the ,english     
,throne1 the ,roman ,catholick          

,religion1 and the ,clergy1 to their    
,livings1 ,churches1 ,jurisdictions1 and
 ,privileges1 tho he design'd to do it  
when it was convenient3 ,the ,reason    
was1 ,it was inconsistent with the good 
of ,king ,james's ,affairs at that time4
 ,but why was not this done1 when ,king 
,james came to ,ireland1 and was at the 
,head of an ,irish ,army8 ,the ,reason  
that induc'd him to delay it1 is here   
plain2 ,he was afraid it might alienate 
the affections of the ,protestants in   
,england1 from giving a helping hand    
towards his ,restoration4 ,he did not   
delay it upon the account of the        
unjustness of the thing it self2 it was 
from another ,principle1 even that of   
,politicks1 lest the ,protestants of    
,england should be too much alarm'd with
 it4 ,thus ,king ,james and his ,popish 
,clergy must have very low thoughts of  
the ,wit and ,sense of the ,protestants 
of ,england1 to think they could be so  
easily cheated with such silly baits1   
and could be hook'd in by so weak       

,pretences4 ,no sure2 they could not be 
so short-sighted1 as not to see through 
these ,cobwebs of ,romish ,politicks2   
and they had too many hints of their    
,designs1 not to be ignorant what was   
really at the bottom of them4  ,but it  
seems at the giving in of this          
,memorial1 the ,romish ,clergy was      
become of another ,opinion4 ,they       
thought it not worth their while to     
dissemble any longer1 but that it was   
absolutely fit to fall to work without  
any further ,ceremony4 ,they tell ,king 
,james positively1 ,that it's altogether
 needless to humour the ,protestants in 
concerns of this nature2 ,that all the  
return they made to his and his         
,predecessors ,kindness and ,indulgences
 to them1 was to ,invite a ,foreign     
,power to ,invade his ,throne4 ,here we 
are expresly told1 ,that all the late   
,king's ,kindness to the ,protestants1  
was only to humour them1 that is1 to lay
 them asleep with his ,caresses1 till it
 was time to give the ,blow1 by         

restoring the ,roman-,catholick         
,religion1 and the ,roman-,catholick    
,clergy to their ,churches1 ,livings1 c4
 ,but this is not all2 ,these ,gentlemen
 tell us by way of an ,inuendo1 ,that   
all the ,privileges the ,protestants    
enjoyed by the ,laws of the ,kingdom1   
were indeed no more1 but ,king ,james's 
and his ,predecessor's their manifold   
,condescentions and ,indulgences to     
them3 ,so that instead of ,laws for the 
,security of our ,religion1 we were in  
the opinion of the ,romish ,clergy1     
obliged only to the ,condescention of   
our ,kings for our peaceable ,enjoyment 
of it3 ,and as all ,favours may be      
revoked upon the ingratitude of them on 
whom they are bestowed2 so consequently 
may all the ,liberties and ,privileges  
of the ,protestants of ,england1 be     
recall'd in the sense of this ,memorial1
 because of the bad returns they made   
that ,king for them4 ,i know no reason  
why they here take in ,king ,james's    
,royal ,predecessors1 unless it be to   

insinuate something against the ,memory 
of ,king ,charles ,,ii4 as if he and    
,king ,james had been upon the same     
bottom1 as to their ,condescentions and 
,indulgences to the ,protestants1 and   
therein both of one ,religion2 which how
 true1 we must refer to the ,great ,day1
 when all hidden things shall be laid   
open4  ,as in the former part of this   
,paragraph1 the ,givers in of this      
,memorial derogated from the ,wisdom of 
the whole ,protestants of ,england1 in  
being cheated with their silly ,baits2  
,so in the last ,words of the ,period   
above mentioned1 they fall foul upon the
 ,honesty of those ,protestants that are
 upon ,king ,james's side1 as if they   
would not be displeased1 or grudg at the
 re-establishment of the ,romish        
,religion and ,clergy in ,ireland2 but  
that notwithstanding thereof1 they would
 continue to co-operate to ,his         
,restoration4 ,i am not concerned to    
answer for the ,protestant ,jacobites in
 ,england2 here they have a ,charge laid

 to their door by others engaged in the 
same ,bottom with themselves2 and how   
true the ,charge is1 they and their own 
,consciences know best3 ,i shall only   
say1 ,if it be so1 as is here           
insinuated1 then it's no wonder they    
should be the ,horror and ,hatred of all
 ,good ,men4   ,,memorial4  ,sir1 ,now  
is the true time for ,your ,majesty to  
accomplish that ,glorious ,work3 ,it is 
not likely that hereafter any more easie
 or better opportunity will happen for  
it1 than whilst we have the happy       
,enjoyment of ,your ,majesties ,presence
 amongst us3 ,for it is reasonably to be
 apprehended1 that the ,difficulties to 
be surmounted in so godly a ,design1    
will rather be increased than           
diminished1 by the continual            
,suggestions of our ,adversaries against
 us to ,your ,majesty1 when restored to 
,your ,throne in ,england4 ,furthermore1
 the very ,protestants themselves cannot
 in their hearts chuse but applaud1 and 
judg it in the main to be a necessary   

effect of ,royal ,bounty and ,justice1  
that those ,livings1 ,churches1 and     
,prerogatives1 which were taken away    
from the ,roman-,catholick ,clergy by   
,protestant ,kings and ,parliaments1    
should now1 after so many ,years        
,sufferings1 be restored back unto them 
by a ,roman-,catholick ,king1 with the  
,concurrence of a ,roman-,catholick     
,parliament2 were it for no other       
,motive1 than to gratifie ,your         
,roman-,catholick ,subjects of this     
,kingdom1 who have so eminently         
signalized their ,loyalty1 ,allegiance1 
and constant good ,zeal to assert with  
their ,lives and ,fortunes1 ,your       
,majesties ,rights1 in a time when      
,protestants and ,sectaries1 nay also   
the chief1 and most part of the         
,protestant ,clergy1 did not stick to   
stir up and bring in an ,invasion1 and  
join hands with ,your ,enemies against  
,you4   ,,reflections4  ,in the         
beginning of this ,paragraph1 they seem 
unwillingly to tax the ,protestants that

 are on ,king ,james's side1 with what  
is indeed no ,crime1 but a ,duty1 viz4  
,their ,suggestions to him in case of   
his ,restoration1 against so godly a    
work1 as the restoring the ,romish      
,religion and ,clergy4 ,i confess this  
is a ,compliment some of them do scarce 
deserve2 and which is expresly          
contradicted by what was said in the    
former part of this same ,memorial1 in  
that1 ,that they would not be           
displeased1 nor grudg at the            
re-establishment of the ,romish         
,religion and ,clergy in ,ireland4 ,and 
it's a question which of the two        
,insinuations are most natural1 and most
 consequential to the ,principles and   
,practices of the ,protestant           
,jacobites4  ,what a ridiculous piece of
 stuff is this6 ,that the ,protestants  
themselves will applaud in the main1    
that necessary effect of ,royal ,bounty 
in a ,roman-,catholick ,king's restoring
 back to the ,roman ,catholicks1 what a 
,protestant ,king and ,parliament had   

taken from them in ,ireland4 ,at the    
same rate1 and by the same parity of    
,reason1 what a ,protestant ,king and   
,parliament has taken away from the     
,roman-,catholicks in ,england1 should  
be now restored them by a               
,roman-,catholick ,king1 when he comes  
back to the ,throne of ,england4 ,indeed
 we have no reason to doubt1 but as the 
,reason is the same1 so the ,manner of  
acting would be the same in both        
,kingdoms2 which is fairly enough hinted
 in the ,words themselves4  ,how        
eminently they have signaliz'd their    
,loyalty and ,allegiance to ,king ,james
 in this ,juncture1 their ,bravery and  
inimitable ,courage have evidenced with 
a ,witness4 ,the truth is1 it's hard to 
say1 ,whether ,king ,james be less      
oblig'd to the ,valour of the ,irish1 or
 they to his ,conduct3 ,i am of         
,opinion1 ,they will not be willing to  
try their ,fortune again1 under such a  
,general1 nor ,he to try ,his1 with such
 ,soldiers2 ,and so there's nothing lost

 in point of ,gratitude on either hand4 
,,memorial4  ,what greater ,mischief or 
,villany than this can be apprehended   
from them6 ,for not to speak here of the
 ,malicious endeavours formerly used in 
their ,parliament1 to exclude ,you from 
,your ,right of ,inheriting the ,crown1 
or of the ,treacherous ,plots and       
,designs contrived by some of them1 for 
to take away ,your ,majesties ,life1 and
 that of ,your ,royal ,brother the late 
,king of ,blessed ,memory3 ,and after   
all this1 ,is it reasonable to repose   
any ,confidence in them1 or to expect   
that ever they will prove real and true 
unto ,you upon occasion of helping ,you 
to regain ,your ,crown8 ,or certainly if
 they should chance to give any such    
,encouragement1 it will not proceed from
 a real ,love to ,your ,royal ,person1  
but that they find it necessary for     
their ,temporal ,interests1 which they  
now experience to be in great danger1   
and much prejudic'd by their late       
,rebellious ,defection4 ,consequently1  

as far as ,your ,return may avail for   
the ,preservation and ,advantage of     
those their ,interests1 they may concur 
thereunto1 without regarding any        
,establishment whatever1 that ,you make 
in this ,kingdom1 in favour of the      
,roman-,catholick ,religion and ,clergy2
 for they do not doubt1 but that ,your  
,majesty being of the ,roman-,catholick 
,religion1 intends to establish the     
same1 and to restore the ,clergy to     
their ,livings1 ,churches1 and full     
,jurisdiction1 in this ,your ,catholick 
,kingdom4   ,,reflections4  ,as to some 
of the ,protestants ,design of old to   
exclude ,king ,james from inheriting the
 ,crown1 as is here mentioned2 ,the     
,bill of ,exclusion1 as it was the      
result of the ,counsels of those who saw
 no other way at that time to save ,us  
from ,popery and ,slavery2 so it's a    
question1 ,whether it had not been      
better for that ,prince that that ,bill 
had taken effect4 ,for it seems to me1 a
 far greater misfortune1 to be once upon

 a ,throne1 and to put a necessity on   
the ,nation to dethrone him1 than never 
to have been suffer'd once to sit down  
upon it2 ,and ,i believe that unhappy   
,prince thinks so himself1 by this time4
 ,so that the ,papists have no great    
reason to blame the ,protestants upon   
that head4  ,as to the ,treacherous     
,plots and ,designs contriv'd by some of
 the ,protestants to take away the life 
,king ,james1 and of his ,royal         
,brother1 ,alas6 ,we all know where this
 ,plot was coyn'd2 who they were that   
brought it upon the ,stage2 and to what 
end4  ,this ,protestant ,plot here      
hinted at1 was thought upon by the      
,popish ,party then at ,court1 as the   
only proper means to stifle for good and
 all the ,popish one2 ,and what         
,villanies1 ,perjuries1 ,subornations1  
,lyes and ,murthers1 were put in        
practice at that time1 none in ,england 
can be ignorant4 ,it could be wish'd1   
,that for the honour of the ,nation1 and
 for the honour both of the ,bar1 and of

 the ,bench1 these things were buried in
 perpetual oblivion4  ,the ,insinuation 
at the end of this ,paragraph1 ,that if 
those ,protestants shall help ,king     
,james to regain his ,crowns1 it will   
proceed only from a motive of temporal  
,interest2 ,i believe may be very true  
in some sense4 ,for certainly nothing   
but a false shew of temporal ,interest  
can ever prevail with a ,protestant to  
bring back ,king ,james2 since he must  
make account to lose thereby all        
spiritual ,interests1 viz4 those of his 
own ,religion1 ,conscience and immortal 
,soul2 ,and these he must necessarily   
resolve to part with at the very moment 
he brings back that ,prince to the      
,english ,throne4 ,but yet it's but a   
false shew of temporal ,interest at the 
best2 ,for not only the ,ruine of his   
,religion1 but that of his ,property and
 ,liberty must attend ,king ,james his  
,return4 ,it's then we must submit our  
selves either to a ,french ,yoak1 or a  
,yoak after a ,french ,model2 ,and then 

farewell for ever the ,liberties and    
,properties of the ,subjects of         
,england4  ,that these ,protestants 7who
 the ,memorial confesses from a temporal
 ,interest only would help ,king ,james 
to regain his ,crown7 should have no    
regard to any ,establishment ,he should 
make in ,ireland in favour of the       
,roman-,catholick ,religion and ,clergy3
 ,i hope it's not true of them4 ,and if 
it be so1 ,they are the unhappiest and  
most hateful ,wretches upon ,earth1 as  
being willing for their trifling        
,interests to sacrifice a whole ,kingdom
 to ,rome4   ,,memorial4  ,what worse   
,resentments can they receive of ,your  
,majesty's putting that ,intention now  
absolutely in ,effect1 than they may of 
what other glorious things you have     
setled in this ,kingdom as means        
thereunto1 by making ,catholick         
,corporations and ,magistrates1 and     
,judges1 by rendering ,roman-,catholicks
 capable of all manner of ,offices and  
,employments1 by putting the ,government

 ,civil and ,military into the hands of 
the ,roman-,catholicks1 by breaking that
 unjust ,act of ,settlement1 and        
restoring the ,catholick ,proprietors to
 their ,ancient ,estates4               
,,reflections4  ,here the ,romish       
,clergy tell the ,world plainly1 ,that  
the ,restoring the ,romish ,religion1   
and the ,romish ,clergy to their        
,churches and ,livings1 merits no       
greater ,resentment from the            
,protestants1 than the making           
,roman-,catholick ,corporations and     
,magistrates and ,judges1 the rendring  
all ,roman-,catholicks capable of       
,offices and ,employments1 by putting   
the ,government ,civil and ,military in 
their hands4 ,i confess we are oblig'd  
to them for telling us so2 ,especially  
considering that in the last ,reign some
 ,people look'd upon these last         
,innovations to be no great business2   
and were willing to concur1 or at least 
tamely to consent to them4 ,we see what 
a sense the ,papists themselves had of  

these ,violations of our ,law3 ,it was  
all one in their ,eyes1 as a            
,re-establishment of the ,romish        
,religion and ,clergy1 which some of the
 ,protestants themselves would not      
believe3 ,and indeed the wiser part of  
the ,protestants thought the one was as 
just as the other4 ,and that the ,royal 
,prerogative might be wrested by        
,corrupt ,judges and ,lawyers then in   
pay1 to infer a power to do both4       
,,memorial4  ,these are ,changes of far 
greater difficulties1 and more apt to   
exasperate the ,protestants of ,england2
 and yet without regarding their        
,displeasure1 ,your ,majesty1 praised be
 ,god1 was successfully prevail'd on to 
compass these ,glorious ,alterations4   
,how then can it be thought reasonable  
that the ,consideration of displeasing  
or exasperating the said ,protestants of
 ,england1 should influence upon ,your  
,majesty to postpone or let slip this   
present ,opportunity of ,re-establishing
 ,your ,roman-,catholick ,clergy of this

 ,kingdom in the full manner            
aforementioned8   ,,reflections4  ,if   
the late ,circumstances wherein ,king   
,james was in ,ireland1 was so          
favourable an opportunity to            
,re-establish the ,roman-,catholick     
,religion in that ,kingdom1 as the      
,memorial affirms1 ,then much more was  
the ,circumstances he was in here in    
,england1 some two years ago1 a         
favourable ,opportunity to ,re-establish
 the ,romish-,catholick ,religion in    
this ,kingdom4 ,in ,ireland ,king       
,james's ,power was only confined to    
that ,island1 and he was destitute of   
the ,support and ,assistance of the ,two
 other ,kingdoms that had been once     
,his4 ,he had1 when in ,ireland1 a      
powerful ,prince possest of these two   
other ,kingdoms1 and of a part of       
,ireland it self1 who was ready to beat 
him out of the rest1 at the ,head of a  
brave well-disciplin'd ,army1 while     
,king ,james had no reason to hope any  
great things from ,his1 made up of      

,cowardly ,ill-disciplin'd1 and as      
ill-pay'd ,irishes4 ,king ,james's      
,circumstances were far better two years
 ago1 being ,master of ,three ,kingdoms1
 and of a brave and numerous ,army1 and 
no body to oppose him4 ,so that if his  
,will was the same as to the            
,re-establishment of the ,romish        
,religion1 7as no body doubts but it    
was7 ,then his ,power was much greater  
two years ago1 when in ,england1 than   
two or three months ago when in         
,ireland1 at the time of presenting him 
this ,memorial4 ,thus that ,unfortunate1
 ,misguided ,prince was in all his      
,conduct wise too late1 though to the   
great happiness of these ,three         
,kingdoms1 as the ,event has prov'd4    
,,memorial4  ,we must confess1 that such
 an ,intire ,establishment of the       
,roman-,catholick ,clergy in ,england1  
would perhaps prove very difficult1 and 
provoke the ,indignation of the         
,protestants in a high measure1 because 
it is contrary to the ,persuasion       

generally held by the ,people there1 who
 though never so different amongst      
themselves in their ,tenets1 yet agree  
together in bearing so implacable an    
aversion to the ,roman-,catholick       
,religion and ,clergy1 that it is not to
 be expected they would ever concur in  
their ,parliaments thereunto3 ,but the  
,case is quite otherways in this ,your  
,majesty's ,kingdom of ,ireland2 for the
 ,people here being generally           
,roman-,catholicks1 incomparably        
exceeding in number all ,sectaries and  
,protestants1 covet nothing more1 than  
to have their own ,roman-,catholick     
,clergy ,re-established amongst them in 
those ,churches and ,livings that the   
,piety and ,devotion of their           
,ancestors1 time out of mind1 conferr'd 
upon them for the ,service and ,honour  
of ,god1 and for their decent           
,subsistence2 and restor'd to the full  
,exercise of their ,spiritual           
,jurisdiction1 and enjoyment of their   
,privileges4   ,,reflections4  ,we find 

the ,romish ,clergy do here usher in the
 difficulty of ,re-establishing the     
,romish ,religion in ,england1 with a   
perhaps2 ,and they will not allow it to 
be impossible1 but only that it would   
prove difficult4 ,i make no doubt1 but  
if things were at this day in ,england  
upon the same foot they were in two     
years ago1 we should have heard of no   
difficulty in this matter3 ,it was then1
 in their opinion1 the easiest thing of 
a thousand to ,re-establish the         
,roman-,catholick ,religion in ,england3
 ,and by all their ,actions and words   
they express so much4 ,i will not       
determine1 how far it was possible to   
bring ,england in the last ,reign1 to   
comply with1 and embrace ,popery4 ,but  
this ,i may safely say1 ,that the       
,debaucheries with which the ,nation was
 poison'd in ,king ,charles's ,reign1   
had laid them open to any ,change in    
,religion4 ,we all know ,atheism is the 
fairest ,introduction to ,popery3 ,and  
he that's an ,atheist to day1 may easily

 be a ,papist to morrow1 especially if  
his ,interest concur in the ,change4 ,we
 saw how much ,popery gain'd every day1 
and how many men1 and that of the first 
,rank1 ,interest1 and the ,smiles of a  
,court1 prevail'd with to change their  
,religion they were brought up in1 for a
 new one they had never taken the pains 
to examine further1 than as to the      
favourableness of it with the ,king4    
,moreover1 in ,france we had the example
 of a vast many ,thousand ,protestants1 
who had not the ,courage nor ,constancy 
to resist the ,methods taken by the     
,romish ,emissaries to bring them back  
to the ,communion of ,rome4 ,and the    
,french ,protestants were at least as   
,zealous in their ,religion1 as we in   
ours1 and seem'd to be willing to       
venture as much for it as we4 ,so that  
,i cannot either confute or consent to  
this last part of the ,memorial2 but    
must conclude with this2 ,that we have  
reason to bless ,god1 and pay our       
,thanks and ,acknowledgment to the      

,glorious ,instrument he made use of1 by
 whom we are put out of fear of having  
our ,constancy in the ,protestant       
,religion tried1 at the rate we had     
reason to expect not long ago4  ,and    
thus ,i take leave of the ,memorial of  
the ,romish ,clergy1 and leave them to  
the disappointments they have met with1 
both in that ,kingdom and elsewhere1 of 
all the hopes they have been so long a  
rearing up to themselves2 and which now 
are vanisht into smoke1 upon the        
appearing of our ,victorious ,king in   
the ,island1 where they were to begin   
their thorough ,work4   ,,postscript4   
,we live in an ,age wherein some people 
have the ,impudence to deny things of   
themselves as clear as the ,sun in its  
,mid-day ,light4 ,go and enquire of the 
,roman-,catholicks in ,france1 and other
 ,popish ,countries1 they will make no  
bones to confess freely1 ,that two years
 ago1 they had the greatest ,grounds    
possible to have hop'd for the          
,establishment of the ,catholick        

,religion1 and the utter ,extirpation of
 what they call ,heresie1 through the   
,three ,kingdoms of ,england1 ,scotland1
 and ,ireland4 ,but at the same time1 go
 and enquire the opinion of some among  
our selves at home1 that call themselves
 ,protestants1 in this point they will  
confidently tell you1 ,there was never  
any such ,change designed4 ,these people
 must either be strangely stupid1 or    
must from some one reason or other find 
themselves oblig'd to dissemble a thing 
that cannot1 that will not be hid4 ,the 
,memorial ,i have before given a        
particular ,copy of1 is a proof of such 
a ,design1 as to change ,religion in    
,ireland2 and such a proof1 as there can
 be no clearer given for any thing in   
the world3 ,but ,i have thought fit in  
this ,postscript to give another        
evidence as clear as the former2 but an 
,evidence that proves not only a design 
to overturn the ,protestant ,religion in
 ,ireland alone1 but likewise in the    
other ,two ,kingdoms of this ,island3   

,and that is1 ,a ,memorial given in by  
,monsieur the ,duke of ,chaulnes1       
,ambassador ,extraordinary for the      
,french ,king1 to this present ,pope1   
very soon after his coming to the       
,papacy4 ,the ,memorial it self is to be
 found in several of their ,papers now  
printed at ,rome and other places of    
,italy1 on the occasion of the present  
,transactions betwixt the ,court of     
,france1 and that of ,rome2 and the     
,copy whence ,i take it1 is the ,italian
 ,mercury of ,venice1 ,numb4 #ajab4 ,the
 ,memorial is there mentioned at full   
length1 and refers to a great many other
 ,heads1 than what ,i need here to      
mention4 ,i shall only copy from the    
,original1 those parts of it that       
concern the ,affairs of ,king ,james1 or
 of the ,french ,king as his ,ally and  
,confederate4   ,the ,memorial is thus4 
,the ,memorial and ,representation made 
to our most ,holy ,father     the ,pope1
 by ,his ,excellency ,charles de        
,albert1 ,duke of     ,chaulnes1 and    

,peer of ,france1 ,ambassador           
,extraordinary1     and ,plenipotentiary
 from ,his most ,christian ,majesty1 to 
,his     ,holiness1 in ,name and ,behalf
 of ,his most ,serene ,majesty1 ,his    
,master4  ,his ,excellency does most    
unwillingly1 and with the most inward   
,grief1 put ,his ,holiness in mind of   
the sad and unhappy ,consequences that  
have arisen to the ,catholick ,church1  
by the unnecessary and ill-tim'd        
mistakes entertain'd by the late ,pope  
,innocent ,,ii4 of the most ,serene     
,king his ,master4 ,what dismal effects 
they have produc'd1 all ,europe feels at
 this day with regret4  ,the most       
,serene ,king his ,master has done all  
in him lies to deserve the name of the  
,eldest ,son of the ,church4 ,and by    
breaking into pieces that ,hydra of     
,heresie1 which had in his own ,kingdom 
for above an ,age1 trampled upon all    
that was ,sacred1 he might have justly  
expected better ,returns of his ,zeal   
for the ,catholick ,religion1 than he   

did meet with from the then ,head of the
 ,church4 ,it was not only in his own   
,kingdom1 that his most ,serene ,master 
did use his utmost ,power and ,interest 
to root out ,heresie1 and to establish  
the true ,ancient1 ,catholick1 and      
,apostolick ,religion2 but his ,aims and
 ,influence went farther2 and unless the
 late ,pope ,innocent ,,ii4 had wilfully
 obstructed his ,designs by an untimous 
and needless ,breach betwixt him and the
 ,crown of ,france1 the state of        
,christendom1 and of the ,catholick     
,church1 had been far better than it is 
at this day4 ,all this his ,excellency  
does not represent to his ,holiness out 
of any design to cast ,dust on the      
,ashes of his ,predecessor2 for as the  
most ,christian ,king his ,master       
suffered as much as ever ,prince in his 
,circumstances and ,quality did1 from   
the late ,pope1 and that without doing  
any action unbecoming a true ,eldest    
,son of the ,church towards the common  
,father and ,head thereof2 so he        

resolves for ever to banish from        
himself1 and bury in oblivion the       
remembrance of these things4  ,here the 
,french ,ambassadour does very fairly   
confess as a great ,honour to his       
,master1 ,that it was not in his own    
,kingdom only1 that he us'd his         
,interest to root out ,heresie2 but that
 his ,aims and ,influence went further2 
and if the late ,pope's breach with him 
had not hindered1 ,the state of the     
,catholick ,church had been far better  
than it is now at this day4 ,what can be
 more plain than this8 ,and where could 
the ,french ,designs and ,influence to  
root out ,heresie1 be more effectual and
 more probable to lie1 than in ,england1
 at that time under the ,reign of a     
,prince as zealous a ,romanist as       
himself1 and in the nearest conjunction 
with him in all ties of ,friendship and 
,alliance4  ,the rest of the ,memorial  
contains a great many other particulars 
relating to the ,pretensions of the     
,french ,king1 and ,disputes between him

 and the late ,court of ,rome3 ,and     
therefore it's needless here to mention 
them4 ,only in the end ,he has this     
other ,article relating to the ,affairs 
of ,england1 which runs thus4  ,his     
,excellency humbly intreats his         
,holiness to consider in his ,fatherly  
,care and ,zeal1 the horrid and         
inexpressible prejudice the ,catholick  
,church has received by the fatal       
disappointment all her ,sons have met   
with in the misfortune of his           
,britannick ,majesty2 ,and that just at 
the very instant of time1 we were to    
expect all good and great things for the
 ,catholick ,church from that ,king's   
,zeal and ,affections to it4 ,so that   
unless speedy course be taken for that  
,king's ,re-establishment1 not only all 
the joint ,designs for the suppression  
of ,heresie will fall to the ground2 but
 the ,catholicks of those ,kingdoms will
 be in the saddest condition possible4  
,and the ,holy ,church depriv'd of those
 great ,kingdoms1 c4  ,here is as fair a

 ,confession as ever was made of a      
disappointment the ,romish ,church met  
with in the late ,king's ,misfortune1   
and how great things that ,party        
expected from ,king ,james his ,zeal for
 the ,romish ,church3 and in fine1 of   
joint ,designs for the suppression of   
,heresie4 ,and after this1 ,i would fain
 know who can doubt of our ,intended    
,ruine1 and that of our ,religion1 if   
the late happy ,revolution had not      
fallen out8   ,,finis4   ,,books        
,printed for ,richard ,baldwin4  ,a     
,true ,relation of the ,cruelties and   
,barbarities of the ,french1 upon the   
,english ,prisoners of ,war4 ,being a   
,journal of their ,travels from ,dinan  
in ,britany1 to ,thoulon in ,provence2  
and back again4 ,with a ,description of 
the ,situation1 and ,fortifications of  
all the ,eminent ,towns upon the ,road1 
and their ,distance4 ,of their ,prisons 
and ,hospitals1 and the number of men   
that died under their ,cruelty3 ,with   
the ,names of many of them1 and the     

,places of their ,deaths and ,burials3  
,with an ,account of the great ,charity 
and ,sufferings of the ,poor            
,protestants of ,france3 ,and other     
material ,things that hapned upon the   
way4 ,faithfully and ,impartially       
,performed by ,richard ,strutton1 being 
an ,eye-witness1 and ,fellow-sufferer4  
,the secret ,history of the ,dutchess of
 ,portsmouth3 ,giving an ,account of the
 ,intreagues of the ,court1 during her  
,ministry4 ,and of the ,death of ,k4 ,c4
 ,,ii4  ,the ,memoirs of ,monsieur      
,deagant2 containing the most secret    
,transactions and ,affairs of ,france1  
from the ,death of ,henry ,,iv4 till the
 beginning of the ,ministry of the      
,cardinal de ,richlieu4 ,to which is    
added1 ,a ,particular ,relation of the  
,archbishoprick of ,embrun's ,voyage    
into ,england1 and of his ,negotiation  
for the ,advancement of the             
,roman-,catholick ,religion here2       
together with the ,duke of ,buckingham's
 ,letters to the said ,archbishop1 about

 the ,progress of that ,affair3 ,which  
hapned the last ,years of ,king ,james  
,i4 his ,reign4 ,faithfully ,translated 
out of the ,french ,original4  ,the     
,cabinet ,open'd3 or1 ,the ,secret      
,history of the ,amours of ,madam de    
,maintenon1 with the ,french ,king4     
,translated from the ,french ,copy4     
,the ,character of a ,trimmer4 ,his     
,opinion of ,i4 ,the ,laws and          
,government4 ,,ii4 ,protestant          
,religion4 ,,iii4 ,the ,papists4 ,,iv4  
,foreign ,affairs4 ,by the ,honourable  
,sir ,w4 ,coventry4 ,the ,third ,edition
 carefully ,corrected1 and cleared from 
the ,errors of the ,first ,impression4  
,an ,impartial ,relation of the ,illegal
 ,proceedings against ,st4 ,mary        
,magdalen ,colledge in ,oxon1 in the    
,year of our ,lord #afhg4 ,containing   
only ,matters of ,fact as they occurred4
 ,the ,second ,edition4 ,to which is    
added the most ,remarkable ,passages    
omitted in the former4 ,collected by a  
,fellow of the said ,colledge4